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October 12, 2014

Whisky Is My Muse

With only 19 days left until November 1st it is time to make an important decision: to NaNo or not to NaNo? I have attempted NaNoWriMo every year since 2010, failing in my first attempt but succeeding in the last two. This year, however, I'm torn. You see, I have a fully written novel and it requires a good amount of editing. I'm about one third through my first pass of identifying plot gaps (in come cases chasms) and other major blunders. I should be able to get through the remaining two thirds in a few weeks, and then take a week or so to go back and make some of the additions that I have identified.

That would put me in a pretty good spot to start shopping this baby around sometime early in the new year. On the other hand, I have a half written novel I've been sitting on since last NaNo that I really should finish off. It would be nice to have two completed novels under my belt. On the other, other hand, I have this entirely different idea that should squeeze into roughly 60,000 words and make for a nice short little novel that I think would make a great introductory piece for my future readers.

I really want to move along my finished novel, but the unfinished piece has been sitting for far too long as well. Plus, I really don't want to anger my muse by ignoring a right proper good idea for too long. Argh!

How to tell if you are a writer:

Do you write?

Do you have more projects started than you have completed?

Do you think procrastination should be an Olympic event?

If you answered in the affirmative to all of the above then congratulations! You are a writer.

Here's the thing: I enjoy writing, but I'm a bit lazy turd, but I must also exercise my creativity or I start to get twitchy and depressed. This is why I blog, take a photo a day (as well as many others), write novels, short stories, am about to start a podcast, and write lyrics. Of all these things it's the writing that I find most rewarding. As mentioned last week, I'm giving it more attention in the next few weeks and through November in hopes I can keep the groove going into the new year, but with what?

Methinks the editing and unfinished novel can wait, if only so I can get this idea that's been rattling around out of my head and keep my muse from forgetting about me.What do you think?

Since we're on the topic, here's the latest song creation by Jim Tigwell and I, inspired by all our friends over at Writers Without Borders. We don't have it recorded yet, but we're working on it.

Thinking of the options running through my mind
Need something to get started
To get me on my way, To get me on my way
Praying for the answerto my problems
Fighting urges to be weak
And risk staying the same, And risk staying the same

Am C E7
Staring at the page

Am C G E7
Listen (to) what she has to say

Am C G
Scattered words to rearrange the whiskey

F
In my veins....

G
I better pay my dues today

D Am
Before she takes it all away

G
I better pay my dues today

D Am
Before she takes it all away

Fleeting glimpses of the future
Flash before my eyes
I know there is an answer
All I need is to entice
Too much confusion, too much chaos
Hiding deep inside
There she is providing guidance
But not without a price
Not without a price

Staring at the page
Listen (to) what she has to say
Scattered words to rearrange the whiskey
In my veins...
I better pay my dues today
Before she takes it all away
I better pay my dues today
Before she takes it all away

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Everything I do

D
Everything I say

cadd9
Every word's for you

D
In every single way

cadd9
Everything that's yours

D
And everything that's mine

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Even though I'm torn

D Am
I think that I'll be fine

Staring at the page
Listen (to) what she has to say
Scattered words to rearrange the whiskey
In my veins...
I better pay my dues today
Before she takes it all away
I better pay my dues today
Before she takes it all away
All away
All away
All away
All away
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